Tables of Japanese 3-letter Nonwards with Neighborhood Size

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  • 仮名3文字で表記される非単語の類似語数(N‐size)表
  • 仮名3文字で表記される非単語の類似語数(N-size)表
  • カナ 3モジ デ ヒョウキサレル ヒ タンゴ ノ ルイジ ゴスウ N-size

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Coltheart, Davelaar, Jonasson, and Besner (1977) defined the neighbor of a letter string as any word that can be generated by replacing a single letter from the base string. Some studies have shown that naming latencies are generally shorter for words or pseudowords that have large neighborhoods than for words or pseudowords that have small neighborhoods. This fact suggest that processing of nonwords varies on its neighborhood size. Taking the paradigm of lexical decision task, We should be careful about the processing on nonword as well as that on words. In this article, neighborhood size of Japanese 3-letter nonwords is reported. According to the definition of Coltheart et al., neighborhood size (N-size) of Japanese 3-letter nonwords are computed using the dictionary "KOHJIEN 4th edition". From Table 1 to Table 5,Japanese 3-letter nonwords with N-size is 0,N-size is 10,N-size is 20,N-size is 30,and N-size is over 40 are shown. Using lexical decision task with these Japanese nonwords, Kawakami (in preparation) found that nonwords that have large neighborhoods require more latency for correct rejection than nonwords that have small neighborhoods do. This result suggest that researchers using lexical decision task should pay attention to nonwords, using these N-size tables if Japanese 3-letter nonwords.

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